Robot pruning chainsaw

[Les Cork]

Anyone seen this ?

 

 

And what do you think

 

Soft wood thinning perhaps ?

[urbandekay]

That's everyone out of a job then

[bikewoo]

Looks expensive and slow

 

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[Shane]

Not too good for anything other than vertical mutilation.

Like to see it do a 10% thin out on an beech

 

I won't be changing my career just yet.

[Stubby]

Can it fetch a paper and do a bacon sarnie ?

[Stephen Blair]

On the right job it would be brilliant!!

[openspaceman]

Anyone seen this ?

 

 

And what do you think

 

Soft wood thinning perhaps ?

 

Dolmar had a purely mechanical version, my foreman had used it but I never got the opportunity to see it working. It wound its way up a tree high pruning selected quality tree and when it reached a set diameter it came down.

 

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b7/traktorist2222/JuergenSchwarze300406/100_2123.jpg

 

I think it was called a tree monkey

[Stephen Blair]

Check it out!!

 

[codlasher]

Dolmar had a purely mechanical version, my foreman had used it but I never got the opportunity to see it working. It wound its way up a tree high pruning selected quality tree and when it reached a set diameter it came down.

 

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b7/traktorist2222/JuergenSchwarze300406/100_2123.jpg

 

I think it was called a tree monkey

 

The tree monkey. I'm sure there were several attempts at this sort of contraption in the 60's & 70's. I know the one my boss had, it was brilliant going up but you had to pull on a rope to make it come down........Then it didn't so you had to wait 'til it ran out of fuel, climb up to retrieve or drop the tree it was in.....That's why there are so few in the collectors collections....

codlasher

[openspaceman]

The tree monkey. I'm sure there were several attempts at this sort of contraption in the 60's & 70's. I know the one my boss had, it was brilliant going up but you had to pull on a rope to make it come down........Then it didn't so you had to wait 'til it ran out of fuel, climb up to retrieve or drop the tree it was in.....That's why there are so few in the collectors collections....

codlasher

 

Our one was in the shed by 1974. Scott the foreman said you had to pull a rope if it went wrong.